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A biased coin is tossed 3 times.
The probability that the coin will land on heads is 0.6
The probability that the coin will land on tails three times is less than 0.1
Is this correct?
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9 years ago

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Reiny
the prob that the biased coin is tails = .4
so prob(3tails) = .4^3 = .064

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9 years ago

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